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Monday, 12 September 2016

$122million in cash is found at home of Russian anti corruption chief during police raid

A Russian anti corruption chief has been nabbed with $122million cash
during a police raid on his home. Russian police seized the haul during a
raid on the house of Dmitry Zakharchenko, the deputy head of the Energy
Industry Department of the General Administration of Economic Security
and Combating the Corruption.
The money was reportedly so much that they had to pause in order to find
boxes large enough to hold the cash. After coming away with the huge
sum, $2.2million of which was in Euros, he was arrested on suspicion of
abuse of power, obstruction of justice, and accepting bribes.

A source said: 'The final amount is unknown. [Police] confiscated a
cache only in [Zakharchenko's] house; it is not yet known how many more
assets [he has], but we are working in this direction.'

His lawyer, Yury Novikov, said: 'We are asking about two alternative
measures: home arrest or 70 million rubles ($1 million) bail.'